Common Core Resources

As many of you know, part of the reason why the GED test is undergoing a massive overhaul is due to the ongoing shift in public schools to Common Core State Standards taking place across the country. In order to keep up with these changes, our GED program is going to have to shift to a more standards-driven instructional approach. I know one of our biggest concerns during this transition is going to be lesson planning and finding the time and resources to revamp our curriculum. Luckily, Beth Bowman has offered up a few websites to help us get a head start on this process.

Share My Lesson Common Core Information Center

Share My Lesson is a platform where teachers can exchange lesson plans and ideas. The SML team has dug through over 250,000 user-uploaded and rated resources to pick out the most relevant ones for teaching with the Comon Core. They have a wonderful index for both math and ELA that maps lessons to specific standards. It's all very easy to navigate and can be a great place to find pre-made PowerPoint presentations, activities, video tutorials, etc. It's just a matter of locating what standard you are teaching and downloading the lessons that you like!

LeanZillion Common Core Lesson Plans

This is another website for you to find quality teacher-produced lesson plans aligned to Common Core. It combines videos, assessments, and progress reporting very similar to the Khan Academy (which we all love!). They offer a very user-friendly Common Core Navigator to make finding materials as efficient as possible.

Click here to view a video on LearnZillion that teaches how to compute quotients of fractions in real-world problems. These videos (unlike Khan Academy) have very colorful and vivid images to pair with the math lessons. You can use these videos to brush up on math topics you haven't spent much time with recently, or you can show them as warm-ups to get your lessons started in class!